BioScience

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title: "BioScience" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["biology-journals", "academic-journals-established-in-1964", "oxford-university-press-academic-journals", "monthly-journals", "english-language-journals", "academic-journals-associated-with-learned-and-professional-societies-of-the-united-states"] description: "Peer-reviewed scientific journa" topic_path: "science/biology" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioScience" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Peer-reviewed scientific journa ::

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Field	Value
title	BioScience
editor	Charles Fenster
discipline	Biology
abbreviation	BioScience
publisher	Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences
frequency	Monthly
history	1964–present
impact	8.589
impact-year	2020
website	http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/
link1	http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/current
link1-name	Online access
link2	http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/by/year
link2-name	Online archive
link3	http://aibsbulletin.oxfordjournals.org/
link3-name	Online archive of the AIBS Bulletin
OCLC	610211421
LCCN	82643645
CODEN	BISNAS
ISSN	0006-3568
eISSN	1525-3244
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::callout[type=note] the journal ::

| title = BioScience | cover = | editor = Charles Fenster | discipline = Biology | former_names = | abbreviation = BioScience | publisher = Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences | country = | frequency = Monthly | history = 1964–present | openaccess = | license = | impact = 8.589 | impact-year = 2020 | website = http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/ | link1 = http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/current | link1-name = Online access | link2 = http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/by/year | link2-name = Online archive | link3 = http://aibsbulletin.oxfordjournals.org/ | link3-name = Online archive of the AIBS Bulletin | JSTOR = | OCLC = 610211421 | LCCN = 82643645 | CODEN = BISNAS | ISSN = 0006-3568 | eISSN = 1525-3244

BioScience is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. It was established in 1964 and was preceded by the AIBS Bulletin (1951–1963).

The journal publishes literature reviews of current research in biology, as well as essays and discussion sections on education, public policy, history of biology, and theoretical issues.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in MEDLINE/PubMed (1973–1979), the Science Citation Index, Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences, The Zoological Record, and BIOSIS Previews. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 8.589.

References

References

1. [https://academic.oup.com/bioscience Oxford University Press to publish BioScience journal from 2019]
2. "About the journal". Oxford University.
3. "Bioscience". [[National Center for Biotechnology Information]].
4. "Master Journal List". [[Thomson Reuters]].
5. (2021). "2020 Journal Citation Reports". [[Thomson Reuters]].

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